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While these HTML5 based slide tools are fun, I find they generally aren't even comparable to Powerpoint from Office 95 in terms of features and usability, which is unfortunate.

While this might be nice for putting presentations on the internet, I consider vital features to include, at a minimum:

* Display presenter notes on a second screen * Cope smoothly with differing screen resolutions * Print out PDFs of presentation

Now, this system does seem to cope with the first of these, if I install node.js, but not the others.

I don't want to sound like a downer, just put into perspective that at the moment I feel that HTML5 presentations have a long way to go to catch Powerpoint / Keynote. Hopefully they will some day.



It has the ability to display presenter notes on a second screen - albeit it needs a little setting up. https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#speaker-notes (edit: Seen you had noticed this already. Point still stands, this feature does exist.)

Screen resolutions, I haven't tried but does it not? He talks about it working on mobile safari, so I presume it's OK on an iPad screen at least.

Printing... the logical (to me) way of doing this is to design in PowerPoint then convert to this system. That makes the creation easier, and allows you to print it out or convert to PDF.


No, the screen resolutions is a serious problem.

Design your slides on a big desktop, and half the slide will be invisible on iPad.

This is a problem with projectors, where I have given talks from 640x480 to 1024x768 and beyond. What size do I design my slides at?

Why bother converting a powerpoint presentation? Is this really that much better than putting a PDF on your website?


The library sizes to fit a large variety of screen resolutions, PDF export has been added as well: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#pdf-export




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